David Barclay is an energy professional with over two decades of experience. He works collaboratively with senior leadership at utilities to develop strategies and plans that leverage market conditions to strengthen or create competitive advantages within the regulatory framework. His expertise is built upon a broad base of knowledge spanning gas, electric, water, and wastewater utility operations and planning. He has designed and executed a wide array of research projects that delivered actionable insights to clients and stakeholders. Areas of focus include distributed energy resources (DER), electrification, non-pipe (NPA) and non-wire alternatives (NWA), gas decarbonization, portfolio optimization, market due diligence, emerging technologies, cybersecurity, equity, climate risk and resiliency, electric vehicles, customer experience, ESG, and system adaptation.

Sarah Steinberg leads Advanced Energy United's building decarbonization and future of gas work, developing advocacy strategies and supporting and educating key decision-makers across state houses, administrations, and agencies to accelerate the transition to 100% clean energy in the built environment. Previously, Sarah led portfolios of work in Nevada and Indiana, which focused on utility resource planning, transportation electrification, distributed energy resources, and wholesale markets. Before joining Advanced Energy United, Sarah worked as legislative staff to a State Representative in the Massachusetts State House and organized for the New Hampshire Democratic Party in the 2016 election.

Carmen Best, as Chief Policy Officer, distills a complex policy landscape into tangible, forward-looking solutions, ensuring Recurve’s products not only meet this incredible moment in the energy transition but can also serve as critical infrastructure for a dynamic energy future. Since starting in the energy industry, she has focused on understanding the true delivered value of demand-side resources through standardized, accessible analytics to accelerate investment in demand flexibility to reliably deliver when and where they're needed most.

Before joining Recurve, Carmen spent nearly a decade at the California Public Utilities Commission. She shaped key energy policy in demand forecasting, integrated resource planning, and meter-based efficiency. Her regulatory experience brings essential context in supporting customers, projects, and products, informing and influencing Recurve's innovative product suite.

Recurve is a leader in demand flexibility. The FLEX Platform, a cornerstone of Recurve’s offerings, supports every stage of demand-side program delivery—from initial scenarios and planning to targeting, tracking, and reporting. This comprehensive functionality supports all distributed resources and provides a seamless, transparent foundation for understanding the impact of demand-side interventions, promoting accountability and confidence among stakeholders. Carmen has been instrumental in developing these unique solutions for the market by focusing on enhanced visibility to drive confidence in demand-side investments.

Tamara Kuiken is a vice president at DNV with over 20 years of experience in the energy industry. She has experience supporting regulatory, utility, and public sector initiatives focused on long-term planning, market assessment, and energy transition considerations. Her work includes participation in the Ontario Energy Board’s Natural Gas Integrated Resource Planning Technical Working Group, where she supported analytical and stakeholder processes, as well as an Enbridge jurisdictional scan examining natural gas distribution policy and market conditions across regions. She has also contributed to the California Energy Commission’s Mindful Decommissioning project. Much of her work has focused on collaboration and effective communication. She is adept at understanding different industry perspectives and providing the context around issues, allowing all sides to make informed decisions. She has extensive experience in working across industry groups, collaborating with and engaging stakeholders in multiple markets. She also specializes in explaining complex industry issues and their impacts on policy. She is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Wisconsin.

Richard W. Caperton is the Vice President for Public Policy at SPAN.  In this role, he leads the company’s regulatory and policy functions, where his job is making sure that energy markets work well for the company’s products.  Prior to this, Richard built an industry-leading market development team at Arcadia and led national policy development and ran the regulatory team covering the eastern United States for Opower, which was acquired by Oracle.  Earlier in his career, he did research and advocacy on energy finance policy at the Center for American Progress and political organizing at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.  Richard received his MBA from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and his BA from Pomona College in Claremont, California.  He and his wife live in Washington, DC.

Carolyn Calwell leads the OEB’s ongoing transformation into an agile and future-focused regulator and ensures the OEB carries out its work thoughtfully and deliberately. She excels at building communication and consensus between public and private sectors.  Having served in senior leadership roles in law and policy at Ontario’s Ministry of Energy, Ms. Calwell brings deep energy sector expertise to her role at the OEB. She is the OEB’s Executive Champion for Mental Health and ensures a purposeful approach to diversity, equity and inclusion.  Ms. Calwell chairs the International Confederation of Energy Regulators’ Technology & Innovation working group, participates in the CAMPUT executive and is the President of the Canadian Chapter, Energy Bar Association.  

Marguerite manages industry and government relations for Landis+Gyr's North American business by analyzing "the four levers" of energy policy at the state and national level: regulation, technology, policy, and markets. She supports Landis+Gyr’s diverse portfolio of smart grid hardware and software solutions by developing thought leadership positions for grid modernization, customer grid edge, cybersecurity, electric vehicle managed charging, energy flexibility, and smart gas. Marguerite is passionate about public speaking, event production, systems thinking, and creative approaches to solving complex problems, including reliable, affordable decarbonization of the grid and energy equity issues in the U.S.

Before joining Landis+Gyr, Marguerite led a variety of intelligence and strategy consulting projects for Fortune 500 companies, municipalities, energy developers, start-ups, distribution supply vendors, energy efficiency product developers, environmental nonprofits, sustainable building developers, smart grid advocates, and national laboratories. Outside of energy policy, Marguerite hosts community-building events, workshops, and volunteer events.

Sarah is the Director of Integrated Energy Planning for National Grid New England. Prior to joining National Grid in 2025, Sarah was the Senior Director of the Net Zero Grid Program at Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). During her tenure from 2023-2025, she represented MassCEC as a counselor on the MA Grid Modernization Advisory Council (GMAC). Prior to MassCEC, Sarah held positions at the Department of Public Utilities (DPU), working across gas and electric divisions, from 2019-2023. Sarah’s early career was as a consultant in economics and finance in the energy and environmental science sectors. Sarah has an MBA from Yale School of Management, a MESc from Yale School of Environment, and a BA from College of the Holy Cross.

Ed is passionate about driving transformative policy change in our industry -- especially around the critical issues of Interconnection and Land Use. Serving as RWE Clean Energy's VP of Policy Development and Distributed Government Relations, Ed has been active in Interconnection proceedings across the nation over the last number of years, advocating for common-sense reforms that will enable a high-DER, high-decarbonization future.

After a 15 year career in the Energy Services sector, primarily with Constellation Energy, Ed joined Clean Energy Collective in 2019, remaining with that team through acquisitions by ConEd CEB and RWE Americas.  Ed leads a team that is responsible for Distributed energy policy. A committed urbanist (in addition to a climate activist), Ed lives in Hamilton Heights in Harlem, NY with his partner Abby and their terrorist mini-dachshund, Otto.

Hannah Dobie joined the Great Plains Institute in 2024 and is a senior policy specialist with the Energy Systems team. She facilitates convenings to help develop policy solutions to utility regulatory challenges.  

Hannah is a lawyer who has represented various interests in utility regulatory proceedings. She has also convened diverse stakeholders to develop legally durable air quality and energy regulations. She has conducted research and written on topics including barriers to large-scale electric transmission build-out and implications of court rulings on environmental policy.

Prior to joining GPI, Hannah was a staff attorney with the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy law program and an associate attorney with the law firms Holland & Hart in Denver, Colorado, and Preti Flaherty in Boston, Massachusetts. She earned her JD at the University of Colorado Law School and a BS in environmental policy analysis and planning from UC Davis.

Jessica Shipley is an energy policy professional at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where she focuses on the intersection of electric and gas utility regulation and energy innovation. She leads PNNL’s efforts to provide direct technical assistance to state regulators. Her PNNL research has included integrating gas and electric system planning, implementation of dynamic rates, and vehicle-grid integration challenges. Her expertise includes modernizing cost-of-service regulation, electrification policy, planning, and rate design. She joined PNNL from the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) where she directly advised regulators and other policymakers on practical solutions to energy challenges. Prior to RAP, Jessica was a senior policy analyst with the Oregon Department of Energy.  Jessica has a BS in environmental economics and a Master of Public Policy degree, both from the University of California, Berkeley.  

Kate Shonk supports Advanced Energy United’s building decarbonization and natural gas transition work through legislative and regulatory engagement in key states. Before joining United, she worked to increase grassroots momentum for building electrification, clean energy legislation, and other utility-related issues at Citizens Utility Board of Illinois. Before her time in the energy industry, Kate organized voters during the 2020 presidential election and engaged with communities around climate-related issues.

Carlo is the Co-Founder and CEO of encoord Inc. He is an expert in power system modeling and renewable integration, areas in which he has published several peer-reviewed articles.

Before co-founding encoord, he worked as a senior research engineer at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). His research focused on the impact of variable renewable energy on power system planning and operations and the interface between electricity and natural gas systems. He also led a research project on the potential impacts of climate change on power system planning and operations. While at NREL, he advised the Energy Ministry officials of Mexico and Peru on power system planning and renewable integration.

Before joining NREL, Carlo was a researcher at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. In this role, his research focused on energy system modeling and techno-economic assessments of the European power system.

Carlo was also a lecturer at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he developed and taught graduate courses in the Department of Electrical, Computer, & Energy Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology and a Master in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Bristol.